Short, practical videos with quizzes and summaries.
See all 366Step-by-step guidance on building your closing argument, from pre-trial planning to acing the delivery. Includes how to structure the closing, draft it persuasively, and make it clear for the jury. Also teaches how to decide what to put in your closing, including what to look for you as you monitor the evidence coming in during trial.
Procedure for proper marking of exhibits, useful questions about exhibits, strategies for selecting documents to mark as exhibits, and common mistakes with exhibits.
The main difference between cash accounting and accrual accounting is how revenue and expenses are recognized. This course briefly explains these accounting methods and describes how revenue and expenses are recognized in accrual accounting.
A framework for understanding your private equity client’s business in order to help protect their interests. This course discusses what PE clients are concerned with during three stages of an investment—the acquisition phase, the holding period, and the divestment phase. It looks at valuing a target, maximizing returns, operational improvements, and exit strategies.
How to run a redline of your Microsoft Word documents, as well as how to email the redlines, cleans, and modified pages.
If you’re new to Excel, start here. This course introduces the concepts of cells, rows and columns, shows how to navigate Excel 2016 for Windows, and describes the basics of entering data and doing calculations.
Curated course lists for self-paced learning, with CLE available in most MCLE states.
See all 62An introduction to corporate restructuring practice, including how restructuring practice groups are organized, the roles of the key players, the types of restructuring transactions distressed companies may consider, and overviews of Chapter 11 cases and 363 sales.
This program covers the structure of private equity funds, key deal types, how PE firms approach transactions, and the differences between strategic M&A and Private Equity M&A.
Explains key legal, business, and drafting issues for the most common terms and provisions that appear in day-to-day commercial agreements. This track covers force majeure, indemnification, limitation of liability, notice, publicity, reps & warranties, schedules and exhibits, severability, survival, and term and termination provisions.
An introduction to the corporate form, the four stages of a corporation’s life cycle—startup, growth, maturity, and decline—and key stages of corporation formation, including incorporation, organization, and capitalization, as well as the biggest governance issues faced by corporations at each stage and an overview of the role lawyers typically play at each stage.
How and why emerging companies raise venture capital. This track covers the main VC funding stages, documents associated with each stage, the structure and role of VC firms, and their relationships with clients.
This track introduces the main documents involved in commercial lending deals. It includes walk throughs of the documents and their main provisions, covers key legal and business points, as well as strategic considerations for drafting, reviewing, and filing the documents. Documents covered include commitment letters and other preliminary documents, UCC-1 financing statements, UCC-3s, payoff letters, security agreements, and credit agreements.